QUALITY #MUSCLE
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Adding “quality muscle” to your frame
is the result of the consummate art of combining mass and definition. It’s
a rare and difficult accomplishment. You can have muscle mass without
definition and vice versa — you can even throw in symmetry, “lines” and other
assorted idioms — but you won’t have “quality muscle” until all of that
definition erupts out of your muscle mass like fissures and faults on a
mountain.
Every muscle in your body must stand
out on its own, bold and bursting; this, you may think, is the definition of
“definition.” Not so. Definition won’t stand out if it’s not big enough to get
your attention; otherwise, it’s just strings and threads. Conversely, muscle
mass alone is an unstructured blob.
Quality muscle, on the other hand, is
sculpture, hammered and chiseled into prominent but detailed features from
years of purposeful sweat and toil. By that, I mean you can’t achieve quality
from simply lifting the heaviest weight possible without regard to technique,
nor from pumping out endless reps with a feeble weight. I was very serious when
I said you must hammer and chisel with sweat and toil, but that takes heavy reps
and a lot of them.
In my quest for quality muscle, I
realized that I had to maintain both mass and low bodyfat, so I used two
different workouts for each major bodypart. The first was designed to build
mass, the second was oriented toward definition. Sets and reps differed for
each type of workout. For mass, I relied on extremely heavy weight for lower
reps (six to 10 per working set), the objective being to take the muscle group
to failure for each set. The definition phase incorporated more reps (eight to
15 per set) to build an isolated burn in target muscles.
Did my exercises differ for each
type of workout, you may ask? Not really — I believe that the best
exercises for each bodypart can be counted on one hand, so why not concentrate
on those? Instead of including inferior movements for the sake of
diversity, I simply varied the weight and reps for my objective that day.
To develop a complete and mature
physique with the two qualities of muscle — definition and mass — I recommend
rotating two workouts for your larger bodyparts (delts, thighs,
chest, back and shoulders, at least). I have included an example of the
thigh workouts I used in the offseason before the 1991 Mr. Olympia
contest.
Each type of workout requires maximum
intensity. Even if you’re facing a definition sequence, with its lighter
weights and higher reps, that doesn’t mean you need not push each set to
absolute failure. Effort, after all, is more important than all the techniques
in the world.
WORKOUT A: MASS
- MORNING
- Leg Extensions | SETS: 3* | REPS: 10-12
- Leg Presses | SETS: 4-5 | REPS: 8-10
- Squats | SETS: 4-5 | REPS: 6-8
- EVENING
- Leg Curls | SETS: 4-5 | REPS: 8-10
- Stiff-Leg Deadlifts | SETS: 3-5 | REPS: 8-10
WORKOUT B: DEFINITION
- MORNING
- Leg Extensions | SETS: 5* | REPS: 12-15
- Leg Presses | SETS: 5 | REPS: 10-12
- Hack Squats | SETS: 5 | REPS: 12-15
- EVENING
- Single Leg Curls | SETS: 4-5 | REPS: 8-10
- Stiff-Leg Deadlifts | SETS: 4-5 | REPS: 8-10
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